Re: On ISSUE-6 (invalid values in @datatypes cause plain literals to be generated)

On May 17, 2010, at 14:23 , Toby Inkster wrote:

> On Mon, 17 May 2010 13:31:46 +0200
> Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org> wrote:
> 
>> So, in mind mind, the question does not arise in these terms but
>> rather: what is the specific problem that forces us to artificially
>> disallow relative URI-s? 
>> 
>> Note that the frequent usage for attribute values is something like
>> 
>> @datatype="blabla"
>> 
>> which will NOT be a relative URI, but will be interpreted (if
>> possible) as a term.
> 
> This is precisely the specific problem that should force us to disallow
> relative URIs. If people think they can use relative URIs, they'll use
> things like datatype="foo.html", but that will be interpreted as a
> term, as "." is allowed in NCNames. The rules on when something is
> interpreted as a relative URI reference and when it's interpreted as a
> token would be confusing to authors.
> 

That is a good point

I.



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